Not all of us wish to admit it, however we have all positively labored a not-so-glamorous job as a result of we actually simply wanted the cash — celebs do it, too!
Listed here are 14 celebs who have admitted to taking roles and directing gigs actually simply because they had been in it for the paycheck:
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Jacob Elordi has been on a profession excessive with movies like Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights, however again in 2023, when he was requested what he is on the lookout for in his subsequent venture, he mentioned, “I play what they provide me. I would like a job.”
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On an episode of the Smartless podcast, Taika Waititi talked about directing two of the Thor motion pictures — Thor: Ragnarok and Thor: Love and Thunder — and mentioned he did not even need to direct one within the first place. ” what? I had little interest in doing a type of movies,” he mentioned. “It wasn’t on my plan for my profession as an auteur. However I used to be poor and I’d simply had a second youngster, and I believed, ‘ what, this is able to be an important alternative to feed these kids.'”
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On the purple carpet for Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Rachel Zegler was requested what made her need to be part of the DC superhero franchise. She responded by saying, “I wanted a job. I am being so severe.” She continued including that, on the time, her breakout movie West Facet Story hadn’t come out but so she wasn’t tremendous well-known. “The truth is we’re in the course of a pandemic and I used to be not working and I couldn’t get a job for the lifetime of me, as a result of West Facet Story hadn’t come out but,” she confessed. “It was actually arduous to ebook work for me.”
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Whereas on the press tour for Wonka Hugh Grant mentioned that he “hated” making it. “I made an enormous fuss about it,” he mentioned when requested about working with the tech that turned him into an Oompa Loompa. “I couldn’t have hated the entire thing extra.” He added that the rationale he took the position was as a result of he has “plenty of kids and [needs] cash.”
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Amanda Seyfried as soon as mentioned that she starred in rom-coms as a result of they “pay some huge cash.” She even shared that the film Letters to Juliet paid for her New York house. “Generally, whenever you need to purchase an house in Manhattan, you gotta do one or two. However usually you don’t have to be doing them — there are sufficient motion flicks to maintain you busy… no I’m kidding. Romantic comedies are nice, although, in the event that they’re finished nicely. I like watching them; I simply don’t essentially love the method of constructing one. … And I’m not bashing studios; it’s only a completely different approach of constructing motion pictures. It’s making motion pictures for a unique motive: for cash. And that’s all nice. All of us need cash. I imply, I like my house in New York.”
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Billy Bob Thornton mentioned that he starred in Armageddon as a result of he “needed to have some cash.” He mentioned, “And my supervisor mentioned, ‘Additionally, that is the deal: You’ve got gotta do motion pictures like this, as a result of in case you don’t, you don’t have your image on a bus cease from time to time, folks overlook about you.’ He mentioned, ‘You are able to do the unbiased movies you like all you need. Once in a while, you’ve gotta be on a bus cease. And that is what is going on to afford you the possibility to do the flicks you need.'”
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Bella Thorne has been candid about her upbringing and being her household’s breadwinner. She mentioned that she wanted to do Shake It Up with a view to assist her mother put meals on the desk. She mentioned, “We had been about to stay bodily on the road if I did not have that position. We had been residing off Stouffer’s coupons, and that is all we needed to eat day-after-day. That won’t sound like an enormous deal to everyone, however whenever you’re a single mother elevating 4 children with debt and you don’t have anything to your identify, it is fucking shitty.”
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Morgan Freeman was requested what made him need to star in Ted 2 and he mentioned it was as a result of he favored “incomes a residing.” He added, “If it pays, I get pleasure from doing it.”
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Harrison Ford returned as Han Solo for the seventh Star Wars installment The Pressure Awakens, and when requested if he bought emotional when placing the costume again on Harrison mentioned, “No, I bought paid.”
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Glenn Shut mentioned that she appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy in order that she might “afford” to do extra of the smaller tasks she wished to do. “I am gonna go off and do the following era of Marvel Comics/Disney and I get to be the chief police of the galaxy…I am doing that as a result of it can then afford me to go do the opposite sort of motion pictures that I actually love, and hopefully I’ll have a good time. It’s going to be a brand new expertise for me, however virtually talking it can imply that I can do these smaller motion pictures and it will be okay,” she as soon as mentioned.
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Eddie Murphy initially turned down a job in Greatest Protection, however when he was supplied $1 million to star in it, he mentioned he could not not take the position. “Yeah, I turned down the lead position, however Paramount was decided to get me within the film. They lastly got here again with a suggestion of one million {dollars} for some like a pair weeks’ work. I would like you to inform me a 22-year-old goes to show down one million {dollars} for 2 weeks work,” he mentioned.
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Stephen Dillane was requested if he bought any “skilled and private satisfaction” out of starring in Sport of Thrones, however he responded by saying, “Cash is the primary factor I bought out of it. It’s an odd scenario. There’s a sort of etiquette round this stuff. I feel it’s extraordinary. I’m not dismissing it in any respect.”
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And eventually, Jackie Chan as soon as mentioned that he has causes for starring within the motion pictures he does…besides Rush Hour. “I’ve causes to do every movie, I’ve one thing to say,” he mentioned. “In contrast to Rush Hour — there was no motive [in making it], you simply give me the cash and I am superb. I dislike Rush Hour probably the most, however satirically it bought rather well within the US and Europe.”
